Word: rejection
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Some, like The Crimson in its editorials, have suggested that students have "veto power" over the search committee's presidential picks. I can already see the headlines: "Activists Reject Fourth Presidential Nominee: University Scrambles to Meet Demands." If you want a recipe for rancor and deadlock, follow The Crimson's advice...
...also "threatens the dealers, curators, critics and auctioneers who control the system that assigns value to artists' works." That may be so, says Kirk Varnedoe, director of the department of painting and sculpture at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, who does not completely accept or reject the feminist critique. But to dismiss the notion of quality, he says, also challenges the very purpose of art criticism and art appreciation. Says Varnedoe: "One is never relieved of the burden of making judgments about relative quality -- nor should...
...their middle-class life-style, make Samantha and Jill typical of the estimated 6 million to 13 million lesbians in the U.S. If the higher number is right, about as many women are lesbian as are black and many more than are Hispanic. While a small, strident minority reject men altogether and advocate feminist separatism, most lesbians are fully integrated into mainstream American life. They can be found in locales ranging from Chicago and San Francisco to the rural enclaves of Northampton, Mass., and Brattleboro, Vt. In Finding the Lesbians, author Janelle Lavelle claims she and her friends have "managed...
Despite this hint of shame, Falkner's experience was unusually easy. Many families reject lesbian daughters as they reach adulthood, and in turn, many lesbians do not reconcile themselves to their nature until after marrying and, frequently, having children. One Dallas-based businesswoman says she came out just a year ago, at age 65, after decades of unhappy marriage and raising four sons. In all, an estimated 1.5 million U.S. lesbians are mothers. Most bore their children while married, though adoption and artificial insemination are becoming increasingly popular among lesbian couples. Maria Cristina Vlassidis, 31, a Chilean-born law school...
...disciples of feminism, embracing the movement as a means of sorting out social change. But while the goals are applauded by three-quarters of young people, the feminist label is viewed with disdain and alarm; the name Gloria Steinem is uttered as an epithet. Some young people reject the movement on principle: "The whole women's movement is pushing the career women," says Kathy Smith, 19, a sophomore at Vanderbilt, "and making light of being a homemaker...